Air New Zealand Has Hobbit Fever in Epic Flight Safety Video

Air New Zealand just shared the "most epic flight safety video every made," and it lives up to the billing with appearances by Frodo, director Peter Jackson, and a fake Gandalf on a giant eagle.

Air New Zealand knows its base—travelers in search of Middle-earth right here on plain old regular Earth—and it isn’t afraid to cater to them. The airline unveiled a new in-flight instructional video, timed with the upcoming release of *The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies,*that it’s dubbed "The Most Epic Flight Safety Video Ever Made." They ain’t kidding. While covering all the usual stuff about air masks and fastening your seatbelt, the vid squeezes in wizards, Orcs, elves, hobbit-holes, and just about every other Tolkien reference you can imagine. They even got Weta, the company who worked on the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies, to do the special effects and costumes. Keep an eye out for real filming locations, plus cameos by Frodo (Elijah Wood), Radagast (Sylvester McCoy), Fíli (Dean O’Gorman), and director Peter Jackson.